supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32071654);The Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(2019HJ2096001006);Biodiversity Survey,Observation and Assessment Program of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China(8-3-7-20-9).
A significant fraction of higher plants in China are threatened due to dramatic landscape transformation and increasing climate change.However,the conservation effectiveness of threatened higher plants(THPs)and their ...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Programme of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB310ooooo);and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2021077);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(318o0178).
Over-harvesting,habitat loss and fragmentation,and biological invasions have led to a sharp decline in wild medicinal plants population in China,where they are an essential component of traditional medicine and used w...
Support for this study was provided through grants from the NSFC-Yunnan joint fund to support key projects(U1602264);the Yunnan Science and Technology Innovation Team Program(2019HC015);National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFC0505200);Yunnan Ten Thousand Talents Plan Young&Elite Talents Project.
Mimicry of non-rewarding flowers to rewarding flowers has been accepted as a strategy to improve pollination success in angiosperms.It has been proposed that this mechanism depends on whether potential pollinators can...
was supported equally by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA 20050203 to H.S.);the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFC0505200 to H.S.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Major Program 31590823 to H.S.,31500185 to J.-G.C.);the Yunnan Applied Basic Research Project(2018FA015 to Y.Y.).The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
Cushion plants have been confirmed to be keystone species of alpine ecosystems. However, the adaptive strategies responsible for their recruitment and persistence remain largely unclear. Also, the effect of competitio...
Recent efforts to improve the representation of plant species included on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species through the IUCN Sampled Red List Index (SRLI) for Plants have led to the assessment of almost looo a...